On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:12 PM Masataka Ohta <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > > George Michaelson wrote: > > Or, why we even have SRC in the header: it does not > > inform routing. > > Primarily for ICMP.
Could look inside beyond first header state to see DST as payload. optimisation for ICMP feels like premature optimisation. But, its semi-rational. Frag which dropped this, was going to make IP difficult for any real use anyway, not bothered by the corner-case breaks. Coulda Woulda Shoulda -G
